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Up for sale the "1st German Ambassador To Israel" Rolf Pauls Signed TLS Dated 1963.
August 1915 – 4 May 2002) was a German diplomat. He was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel, from 1965 to 1968,
and was German
Ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973. Rolf
Friedemann Pauls was born in 1915 in Eckartsberga the son of a Protestant clergyman.
He graduated from the Naumburg
Domgymnasium in 1934. He was a career officer in the infantry
of the Wehrmacht. Due to a serious injury, suffered as a company
commander in Russia, he lost his left arm. Before he received a General Staff
Officer Course, in 1942, he was the military attaché in Ankara, Turkey. In 1944, he was on the staff Division. In December 1944, Paul was awarded
the Knight's Cross.
According to a later report of General Hans Speidel, Rolf Friedemann Pauls was in the plans to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944, and was only on the basis
of silence by others that he escaped arrest. After
the end of World War II in 1946,
he studied law, graduating with a doctorate on the political system of the Bonn
Basic Law in 1949. Before Pauls began to act as a diplomat in the Foreign Service,
he worked at the Federal Chancellery, at the junction of the Allied High Commission as
a personal assistant to Walter Hallstein, State Secretary and Vice Consul in
Luxembourg. He was married twice and had two sons. In establishing diplomatic
relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel (only
about 20 years after the Shoah) of parts of Israeli society, and
his inauguration on 19 August 1965, was accompanied by violent
counter-demonstrations. In addition to that of Pauls because of his past as an
officer of the armed forces of Nazi Germany in World War II, where he was
awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and as deputy military attaché at the German
Embassy in Turkey, also during the period of National Socialism of the Israeli
public appeared inappropriate for this office. But his three-year tenure as the
first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel was generally
judged as successful. Pauls was also Ambassador of the Federal Republic of
Germany to the United States from 1968 to 1973, the People's Republic of
China from 1973 to 1976, and to NATO from 1976 to 1980. From 1956 to 1960 he
served as Counsellor in the United States, and from 1960 to 1963 he was Deputy
Head of Mission in Greece. From 1963 to 1965, he was a department manager at
the headquarters in Bonn.